ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,168, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Non-volatile memory device and storage device" was invented by Eun Chu Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Beomkyu Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes at least one non-volatile memory including a plurality of blocks, each block of the plurality of blocks including a plurality of independently erasable sub-blocks. The storage device further includes a storage controller configured to select an erase mode from among a plurality of erase modes according to at least one of an operation schedule and a ...